A cachaça no brasil: origem, declínio cultural e revalorização

Abstract

Sugarcane liquor is a typical Brazilian drink. It is derived from sugar cane and the first record of its production dates from the colonial period. At that time, the drink was often used as a bargaining chip for the purchase of slaves, as well as to "domesticate" them. And because it was linked to slavery, for a long time, the drink was associated with drunkenness and marginalized because of its origin, although at the time much of the sugar planters' profits were due to the production of the drink. Thus, this work aims to present the production process of cachaça, as it happened to be a distilled drink, the challenges that the producers had over time, the types of production and the historical route of the drink; from the colonial period to the present day when the drink came to be valued not only in Brazil but also in other countries.